Nora Murray, the daughter of an ambitious mother, is in love with and loved by Frank Noble, a good but poor man. Nora meets Lansing, a wealthy clubman, who takes her out to cafés and road-houses with her mother’s consent but against her father’s wishes. Nora’s mother tells Noble over the phone that Nora is out, and disgusted he goes home to his parents on the farm, while Nora continues to go around with Lansing. After one of their trips to a road-house Lansing who has been drinking heavily runs the auto over the side of the road into a ditch, and nearly into the river. But with that warning the mother still wants Nora to marry Lansing, which she does. A lapse of three years take place and Nora is very unhappy. Lansing does not stop drinking and goes out every night to his club and with chorus girls while Nora sits home. Nora calls her mother on the phone and tells her to come to her. Mrs. Murray comes to Nora and asks her forgiveness for the unhappiness she has caused her. Nora takes her mother in her arms and her forgiveness is given as the story ends.